Hey there Polycount, I wanted to do a next gen asset to give away, so you guys could play around with it, reverse engineer and re-texture on your own if you feel like it. And I did :) Make sure to check out the videos: Showcase: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIHiXnMltDg Sculpting:…
Brainstorm School - Fantasy Concept Design Workshop: with Kekai Kotaki Join Brainstorm School on March 15th from 2-7PM for an exciting day of lecture, demo, and Q&A with legendary Concept Designer Kekai Kotaki. We will have FREE giveaways at the workshop including an exclusive signed sketch by Kekai himself!! Seating is…
Hey guys, we are holding a winter sale! Wanderlust will be 50% off until December 25th! You can view the details here: http://wanderlustgame.com/winter-sale.shtml We are also doing a giveaway over at IndieDB here: http://www.indiedb.com/games/wanderlust-rebirth/news/wanderlust-rebirth-winter-salegiveaway We would really…
If it helps at all, I can sense the Asian direction. So maybe that's working better than you thought! However, yes, you're right about this not feeling sci-fi. I'm actually getting a conflicting vibe of fantasy in the foreground and "ancient technology" in the background. As you deduced already probably, a lot of this will…
Hey everyone! I thought it'd be fun to do some animations inspired by Lulu, one of my favorite support champions in League of Legends. I plan on using the Lily rig from Artella, as well as the monkey rig from iAnimate. I made a few modifications to help capture the spirit of Lulu and her sidekick, Pix. I haven't done much…
Quixel is at it again. They are giving a few lucky people keys to nDo or dDo "LIKE and SHARE Key Giveaway Take Two! Help us spread the word about dDo & nDo by sharing our page and liking us on Facebook. We will be randomly giving away dDo & nDo licenses to lucky new followers and to those who help us spread the word about…
I thought it would be nice to have a thread for people that want to trade or give away steam game keys. I don't know if anyone else feels this way, but I'd rather do trades with Polycounters then random people on Reddit or other such sites. Same goes for giving games away. Anyhow, here's some games I'm giving away. PM me…
I have been following Naughty dog's work for sometime now and I am beginning to feel that they use a lot of blendshapes or morphing technique in order to nail down realism. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmD2MVlPGGk This is the latest video from ND and I was actually taken back by the characters taking off their suits.…
One of the biggest giveaways that things are 3d for me is how the shadows fall and wrap across a surface and they've done a pretty good job here - there's some lovely shaders in softimage developed by the guy that produced the animatrix and tekkonkinreet anime and used by ghibli that uses vertex maps to control how shadows…
PC wiki is a good place to start: http://wiki.polycount.com/wiki/Texture Also 100% worth reading (but don't get too caught up on technical terms when you're still learning the very basics) http://www.marmoset.co/toolbag/learn/pbr-theory http://www.marmoset.co/toolbag/learn/pbr-practice A quick way to get a "hands on" view…